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It’s a classic holiday film tale: small towns, snowflakes and star-crossed lovers. But this year’s queue of beloved holiday movies may be considerably smaller due to the worldwide shut-down of productions caused by current Hollywood writers’ and actors’ strikes. Glitch SPFX is an Ottawa-based special effects company responsible for simulating …
Read More »How the Hollywood actors strike may impact Canada’s film, TV industries
Canada’s film and television community is bracing for more job uncertainty amid a Hollywood actors’ strike that observers say has the potential to throw more people out of work, upend TV schedules and dim the wattage of celeb-studded events like the Toronto International Film Festival. The decision by the Screen …
Read More »Brazen break-ins at Toronto film equipment rental shops caught on camera – Toronto
Brothers Mehran and Daniel Shojaei are both in the film equipment rental business. Not only do they share an interest in quality cameras and lenses, they now share break-in stories — and they are eerily similar. On Thursday, just after 3 a.m., older brother Mehran was awakened by his security …
Read More »Alec Baldwin sues to ‘clear his name’ in fatal film set shooting
Saying he wants to clear his name, Alec Baldwin on Friday sued people involved in handling and supplying the loaded gun that he was using when it fired, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a 2021 filming accident in New Mexico. Baldwin filed a cross-complaint in Superior Court in Los Angeles …
Read More »Director got death threats over film poster featuring Hindu goddess. Now she’s getting a protest screening
This story contains an image of the film poster. Filmmaker Leena Manimekalai is still being harassed online, though it’s been months since the director tweeted a poster for her documentary short that depicted the Hindu goddess Kali holding a Pride flag and smoking a cigarette. At the time, the Indian director …
Read More »Influential French film director Jean-Luc Godard dead at 91
Director Jean-Luc Godard, the godfather of France’s New Wave cinema, died on Tuesday aged 91, newspaper Liberation and other French media said, citing relatives of the filmmaker. Godard was among the world’s most acclaimed directors, known for such classics as Breathless and Contempt, which pushed cinematic boundaries and inspired iconoclastic …
Read More »Toronto’s film, TV industry can plug into green energy through city’s power grid
The City of Toronto is giving its growing film and television production industry the power to continue to go green. The city announced Monday it will give production crews access to Toronto’s power grid at two highly-utilized film locations — Ashbridges Bay Park and Sir Casimir Gzowski Park. The city said the plan …
Read More »‘Dark Winds’ actor helps First Nations students get into film industry through college course
Wearing a jerk vest and ready to be pulled through the air on ropes for a stunts course, Dan McMaster eagerly volunteers to go first. They’ve been the first to volunteer for every class exercise over the past three months. “I wanted to get everything that I could out of it. Whatever …
Read More »Montreal film entrepreneur Mel Hoppenheim has died
Melvin “Mel” Hoppenheim, renowned Montreal filmmaker, cinematographer, philanthropist and entrepreneur, has died. “He was a Canadian movie industry pioneer and a visionary with a remarkable list of accomplishments, including the construction of MELS Studios,” said MELS Studios on its Facebook page. The Quebec Film and Television Council also called him a pioneer on its …
Read More »‘It’s time for happy stories:’ The evolution of LGBTQ storytelling in film
Peter Knegt remembers sneaking out to video stores as a teenager searching for films that he could relate to. Sometimes, he couldn’t find anything. “The accessibility that queer youth have now to this content is very new,” Knegt said. “It’s remarkable … and is going to go a long way in …
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